Poll: Why Do You Want to Join the Indian Armed Forces?

I want you to honestly tell me why you want to join the Indian armed forces. We will not be publishing who voted for which option. Only the results of the poll can be seen by others. Your vote is a secret and confidential matter. Be honest.

About The Author

+Uday Kumar is a Retired Officer from the Indian Navy. Uday now works full time to help aspirants to join the armed forces - Army, Navy and Air Force. He publishes useful tips in this blog and he has also created an SSB Training program which helps students to study from home, ask questions to Uday Kumar and also meet other aspirants through the online coaching classes. If you are serious about joining the armed forces, you should at least check out his coaching program!

It is obvious thing that firstly, we are attract from job security and high paid income, and the individual who want to join armed force for this is automatically serve our motherland, it is superfulous to say that i join armed force for SERVE OUR NATION and nothing else required.

hello sir,
Im currently studying in the 11th std. I want to join the IAF through the NDA. I was targetting the august 2013 exam because by that i can join nda right after my 12th std. Also, i wanted to apply for the april 2013 exam just to get a feel of the exam before writing it seriously. But the problem is april 2013 and august 2013 are so close and the results of the april exam will not be published by august. My question is sir, can i apply for two consecutive exams???? will it create any problem??? please help..

i am going to attend ssb in month of dec/jan, i am already serving in army, before this i never faced any ssb interview , so pl guide me what should i do,
if you have any mobile contact then give, presently i am serving in delhi

Basically it’s the spirit of serving our nation & on secondary it comes job & good income as far as our second duty is concerned for our family.

Thanking you Sir,

I just want to say one thing to you. Officially it might be that you have served our nation till your retirement but in reality, you are actually still serving for nation. You have motivated & made many people to achieve the success in defence carrer so as they too can serve for nation.

Thanks for keeping/maintaining this great patriotic feeling inside we people.

This is a good question for the aspirants to get feel and realise why they want to join and do work in that way.
I want to join air force because it is a respectable service and second thing is that there will be lot of adventures and i love adventures.
ialso ask a question to you that i am btech 2nd year student and want to join air force. you will understood that i am at zero and i don’t have facilities to join any coaching because of my locality. please tell me how will i start my prepration for SSB and CDS.

Sir, As per Security of job and good income is concerned, No job is secure, Also It is not the easier entry for this SERVICE, And if you want to join Army then SERVING automatically becomes part of your Duty…There are other jobs also you can serve our country..So need not to join Armed force if u want to serve your country….But respect u can only get if u are in defense forces…
Lets see an example of Policeman His job is secure and also gets good income, Serving our country also..But why people abuses then always in our real life , but when a defense force person we see, we feel proud….

So…My view is to get respect from where we live…..Remember money can buy salute but not heart respect……

i gave the preliminary interview of UES-23 for indian navy and am waiting for the results to be disclosed….
i have also given a thought for taking CDS exam because UES gives a job in SSC and i want a permanent commision..
so sir i have a few questions which have been a constant concern

1. What rank will i get in Navy once i am selectd as a commisioned officer through UES or CDS ?

2. As i will be in 4th year by the time CDS II 2013 exam will be held i.e. in sept 2013 am i eligible to fill the form because forms will be out in around May i think…but by that time my result of 6th sem would not have been disclosed…sowhat should i do..?

3. Furthermore i need to ask you the books i need to use for the SSB of UES if i get selected in preliminary and how many books i need to study thoroughly to ensure clearing the written of CDS and which are they and also the CDS SSB..??

4. What should i do for the constant nagging which i feel inside me,to get in thearmed forces as soon as possible and to clear the selection procedure at the first time;because that,for now,is really not letting me give my 100% in engineering,as this one thought that- You are not doing anything for getting in the armed forces specially in the navy doesnt let me do anything else?

Hello sir,
This Is Jagjitsingh Saluja, I have send you some mails before also and you Suggested me very well and I am Glad that you are running such a Good web site where the youngster get Informations about the Defence Job as well as Life attitude.
Sir as I mentioned in my last mails that my Parents are not Happy with my Decision that I wanted to Build my Future In Indian Army and I am Fighting with my Parents from last two years and still there is a Cold-war.
Sir I am really very Uneducated about the Defence Force and I don’t no what to do and How, as my Parents not intrested with my decision so they ll not giving me Money or Permision to join any Classes where I can get Informations about defence force that is the reason I purchased a ssb Interview book and with the help of that book i got some informations about ssb interview and how it work but sir that’s not up tp the mark for me and i do have some more questions with me what i wanted to asked and get clear but I failed to do it even i tryed to find some army officers numbers to whom i can speak and get my answeres but i failed again, sir as i am 20 years old boy i dont wanted to waste my time and age to get my answere becasue i wanted to build my future before crossed the age of 25 because sir I suffered a lot with many problems and bad condiations and now i wanted to see my self well place.

Sir I am preparing for cds exam also but i do have no idea about it and as my parents will not give me money to join the class so please guid me what to do and how to prepare for cds exam.

sir if you help me so please help me sir i am feeling like very alone and now i stuck in a situation where i wanted to clear my questions as soon as possiable.

hello sir,
as of my veiw every body has two important things in life tht is passion and dream.
my passion is to serve my nation but my dream is to become an engineer so i think of joining in armed forces after my graduation. now iam going to ssb interveiw.love my nation proub to be an indian.

Dear Sir,
I am going to attend the SSB in jan 2013, but I have no idea about SSB means I am 0 about SSB. So kindly requested to you please help for SSB and provide some material related to SSB.
Thank you Sir

Jai Hind Sir.
I have a query regarding NDA II 2012 that I have qualified the written examination for NDA 1st pref Army as the result published on 28.12.2012. So now on 09 Jan two pdf files are uploaded on Indian Navy and Army website where the venue and date of Ssb Interview is mentioned for some 600 and 300 candidates respectively. But my name is absent there and the no. of candidates qualifying written exam is around 9,000. Then I am confused whether will I get a call up letter or will subsequent pdf files will uploaded on some website of Indian armed forces?? Please help and the pdf files are uploaded on nausena-bharti and on joinindianarmy.nic.in .

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Uday Kumar is an ex-Naval officer in the Indian Navy and an Alumnus of the National Defence Academy. He blogs about life at the Indian Navy, SSB Interviews and Joining Procedures in the armed forces. To know more about him, visit this page.